![]() ![]() She was born in Edinburgh, but brought up in Oxford, as her father was fellow of New College. Haldane), a famous scientist, whose book Daedalus: Or, Science and the Future (1925) provided science-fiction writers with numerous plot ideas. (Dick Mitchison was a Labour MP from 1945 to 1964, and then became a life peer: Lady Mitchison never liked using her title.) The Haldanes were a Scottish family: her father was a physiologist, and her brother Jack (J.B.S. Naomi was born Naomi Haldane: she married Dick Mitchison, a friend of her brother Jack, in 1917. For much more detail see the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Not by Bread Alone (1983) looks at the problems created by the world-wide distribution of free food. Solution Three (1975) is about a solution to Earth’s problems, involving clones. Her most famous science fiction novel is Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962), about a woman whose job is communication with aliens, on various planets. We Have Been Warned (1935) is a near future story about an attempt to oppress the left. Some of her novels had fantasy elements, like The Conquered (1923), which has a character who turns out to be Odin, and she wrote some fantasy stories and novels indeed, most of her thirty books for children were fantasies. ![]() Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison (1897-1999) wrote over a hundred books and more than a thousand shorter pieces. ![]()
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